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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing the official dinosaur of the Commonwealth"
description: "By Representatives Lewis of Framingham and Domb of Amherst, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3190) of Jack Patrick Lewis, Mindy Domb and others relative to establishing the official dinosaur of the Commonwealth. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3190"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3190 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6dd0000-1f36-47ad-a8be-9f5311deac2c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3190"
source_hash: "37eec033e41fa8443671ce5be54fdd1f1f0cb56eaa2819144f0006c7dc238709"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---
# Massachusetts H 3190 (192nd) — An Act establishing the official dinosaur of the Commonwealth
By Representatives Lewis of Framingham and Domb of Amherst, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3190) of Jack Patrick Lewis, Mindy Domb and others relative to establishing the official dinosaur of the Commonwealth. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3190.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
- Brendan P. Crighton — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce J. Ayers — cosponsor (person)
- Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
- Christina A. Minicucci — cosponsor (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel R. Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Danillo A. Sena — cosponsor (person)
- David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- David Paul Linsky — cosponsor (person)
- Edward R. Philips — cosponsor (person)
- Erika Uyterhoeven — cosponsor (person)
- Harriette L. Chandler — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Patrick Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Jay D. Livingstone — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
- Josh S. Cutler — cosponsor (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Maria Duaime Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Meghan Kilcoyne — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Kushmerek — cosponsor (person)
- Mindy Domb — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Duffy — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
- Sonia Chang-Diaz — cosponsor (person)
- Steven C. Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Tackey Chan — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas M. Stanley — cosponsor (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2021-06-01** Hearing scheduled for 06/09/2021 from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-09-09** Hearing scheduled for 09/14/2021 from 12:30 PM-02:30 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-09-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-09-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2021-09-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-10-14** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-10-21** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-04-21** Accompanied by S2028
- **2022-04-21** Rules suspended
- **2022-04-21** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-04-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-04-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-04-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6dd0000-1f36-47ad-a8be-9f5311deac2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).